>>59017912I always think about the unused Sevii Islands and what their purposes are when it comes to their legacy and lasting impact.
I think it would have been awesome if they did a fishing-centric minigame or safari zone analog that would have been at the locations that were south of the Unown ruins. Just basically an island where you'd get on a boat, then the fishing minigame is basically just you using a super rod or something to catch rare water type Pokemon, maybe even some Hoenn fish because at that point you're far enough away from a region where there'd be slim ecosystem diversity, and maybe even something where they're measured and rated like the Catching Contest in Johto.
Four Island extension would have been interesting to have its own Safari Zone as well, but with this one it would have been cool to have something like the Johto Safari Zone where it granted 1 guaranteed perfect IV. Or maybe something else altogether, like someone that would tell you the eggs moves of a certain Pokemon so that that information wasn't pure guide bait. Or maybe they could have even introduced contests into the games again, but maybe they were nervous to include them on account of berries being tedious to get in FireRed/LeafGreen. Either way what we got was near perfect already, I just went they went the whole distance and put in more Pokemon not available in Kanto, even if they had to dip into the Hoenn Pokemon a bit. They probably wouldn't have had to even make up the mushroom fanatic if they took that approach to having Luvdisc catchable in the games again.
